Television' s premier purveyor of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll has a long, consistent, and unenviable record of substandard fare, including Beavis and Butthead and innumerable pornographic, violent, and outright Satanic rock videos.

From incest, to outrage against child abduction in the late-1970s and early-1980s, to child pornography and pedophile rings in the mid-1980s, to daycare scandals, ritual abuse, and satanic cults in the early 1990s, we arrived at the current panic over sexual predators.

Fiends Angelical, a satanic ritual set to the Kronos Quartet's recording of George Crumb's Black Angels, couldn't have been more different from Dandelion Wine, set to a verdant baroque concerto by Pietro Locatelli.

In the introduction, Machan, an essayist, university professor and adviser for Freedom Communications-the parent company of this publication-maps out the book's course by negating an affirmation by French writer Charles Baudelaire, "Commerce is satanic, because it is the basest and vilest form of egoism.

Kolbrener's warring angels are the satanic and angelic parties in Milton criticism, the Empsons and the Lewises or, more recently, the "grand whig" Stanley Fish and scholars such as John Rumrich who (with nostalgia for the now) reinstate "a satanic Milton more suitable to the assumptions which inform post-modem critical practices" (109).

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